At the ensuing Battle of Queenston Heights, Brock was killed leading a hasty counter-attack to recover a battery which had been captured by the Americans.

Though it may attract early adopters by providing an advanced alternative to current offering, this strategy leaves room for competitors to copy the hasty company ’ s successes and learn from its mistakes.

A strategy of the PQ was to denounce Charest's act as an immoral attack on a person's reputation and dignity ( Parizeau ), since the conclusion that he had repeated his comments was seen as hasty and ultimately wrong, but the strategy arguably did not work well enough to counter the controversy.

Implements of wood and iron are available for close and hasty combat no matter where a man stands.

Conservatives would later criticise Labour for having been “ too hasty ” in introducing family allowances.

Although the Druze religious books describe ad-Darazi as the " insolent one " and as the " Calf " who is narrow minded and hasty, the name " Druze " is still used for identification and for historical reasons.

To make up for lost production time, the film was shot in a hasty three weeks.

By provoking Britain, France, the Netherlands and the Empire to form the Quadruple Alliance, his hasty and ambitious plans brought a flood of disaster to Spain, for which Alberoni was held responsible.

Significant parallels include the prince feigning madness, his mother's hasty marriage to the usurper, the prince killing a hidden spy, and the prince substituting the execution of two retainers for his own.

This proved to be a hasty decision, for they were on the wrong side of the Tigris with no clear means of retreat and the Persians had begun to harass them from a distance, burning any food in the Romans ' path.

The apparent paradox is caused by a hasty generalization, for if the surgeon is the boy's father, the statement cannot be true.

In addition the Dives cognomen of the Crassi Divites means rich or wealthy, and since Marcus Crassus the subject here was renowned for his enormous wealth this has contributed to hasty assumptions that his family belonged to the Divites.

So that a hasty verdict was brought in against him, and the question being asked, if he had anything to say, why judgement should not pass, he only said, that since the Court had refused to hear what was fit for him to speak in his defense, he had no more to say ; upon which Bridgeman pronounced the sentence.

These hasty and harsh preparations caused great hardship for the residents of cities such as Shanghai, where the unemployment rate rose dramatically to 37. 5 %.

Collins has been criticised for not investigating the bay thoroughly, in particular the northern head with its fresh-water river, and for being too hasty in his condemnation of the bay.

Sauron was led to believe that the One Ring had fallen into the hands of Aragorn or some other Western leader, and this was partly responsible for Sauron's hasty assault against Gondor.

The German occupation forces ' delay in occupying Oslo, along with swift action from the President of the Storting, C. J Hambro, created the opportunity for the Norwegian Royal Family, the Cabinet, and most of the 150 members of the Storting ( parliament ) to make a hasty departure from the capital by special train.

Three types of anger are recognized by psychologists: The first form of anger, named " hasty and sudden anger " by Joseph Butler, an 18th century English bishop, is connected to the impulse for self-preservation.

Philip engineered a hasty coronation, shown in this picture, after the death of his nephew, the young John I of France | John I, in order to build support for his bid for the French throne in 1316-7.

The initial stages of the war were defined by a hasty withdrawal of the Culture from vast galactic spaces invaded by the Idirans, who tried to inflict as many civilian casualties as possible in the hope of making the Culture sue for peace.

She had earlier written Angel a psalm-like letter, full of love, self-abasement, and pleas for mercy ; now, however, she finally admits to herself that Angel has wronged her and scribbles a hasty note saying that she will do all she can to forget him, since he has treated her so unjustly.

Cicero saidFor a hasty acceptance of an erroneous opinion is discreditable in any case, and especially so in an inquiry as to how much weight should be given to auspices, to sacred rites, and to religious observances ; for we run the risk of committing a crime against the gods if we disregard them, or of becoming involved in old women's superstition if we approve them.

The poem The Poetresses hasty Resolution, like many of Cavendish ’ s epistles, expresses excuses for any errors that may be found in the poet ’ s work and begs for praise.

The offensive began on the evening of 13 September, after a hasty pursuit of the Germans.

Even a hasty reader will easily find in it numerous blind spots, errors of fact and argument, important exclusions, areas of ignorance and prejudice, undue emphases on trivia, examples of broad positions supported by flimsy evidence, and the like.

When a plan burst its seams, hasty conferences supply the necessary patch, and life goes merrily on.

He did seem hasty on his second and third shots, but then there was an agonizing wait of several minutes while Coe graciously putted out, giving Palmer a chance to recover his composure, which he had quite visibly lost.

However, it was done to St. Paul before his missions work, and St. Paul also instructed St. Timothy to not be hasty in laying on hands.

At the beginning of the battle, the English simulated flight on their left wing that provoked a hasty charge by the French knights against the archers.

However his hasty return on August 18 sparked off fierce inter-tribal clashes between the Issa and the Gadabuursi, which in turn caused the Gadabuursi to withdraw from Djibouti politics and did not return to the political scene until after Djibouti's independence.

It was broad daylight by the time they circled round the back of Deir el Abyad where they found the feature to the east of it occupied by 18th Indian Infantry Brigade which, after a hasty journey from Iraq, had occupied the exposed position just west of Ruweisat Ridge and east of Deir el Abyad at Deir el Shein late on 28 June to create one of Norrie's additional defensive boxes.

Advancing through the uplands of Etruria, Hannibal provoked Flaminius into a hasty pursuit and, catching him in a defile on the shore of Lake Trasimenus, destroyed his army in the waters or on the adjoining slopes, killing Flaminius as well ( see Battle of Lake Trasimene ).

The war is ended with a hasty peace agreement, owing to a revolt by Rome's Latin allies, who resent their dependence on the dominant city.

The cause behind the soured relations is not fully known, though historian Marjorie Chibnall stated that, " historians have tended to put the blame on Matilda [...] This is a hasty judgement based on two or three hostile English chroniclers ; such evidence as there is suggests Geoffrey was at least as much to blame ".

However, further industrialisation was stopped by the hasty exodus of 90 percent of the ethnic Portuguese citizens during and after the independence process which was concluded on June 25, 1975.

" Beaton wrote that the Duke of Guise was " marvellous desirous of the expedition and hasty end of the matter ," and had already consulted with his brother, the Duke of Lorraine, and Mary herself, who was with her mother in Champagne waiting on the resolution of the negotiations.

The most ambitious project of this kind seems to be Harry Turtledove's alternative history Worldwar & Colonization series, where lizard-like aliens land on Earth in 1942, bent on conquest, forcing the opposing sides of the Second World War to sign hasty cease-fires and fight their own ( largely ) separate wars against the invaders.

If he landed on a tree in their yard early in the morning, some " hasty " news would come before noon.

John Dillinger personal items ( left behind after his hasty departure ) are on display.

As with too many high-concept escapades, Conspiracy Theory tacks on a final half-hour of hasty explanations and mock-sincere emotion.

During a hasty reconnoitre late on 9 May Cumberland, Königsegg, and Waldeck found the French fortifying the hamlet of Fontenoy ; they also discovered the enemy's pickets at the villages of Vezon and Bourgeon.

Napoleon ordered Marshal Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, to Montereau, but Victor's force was slow in marching on Montereau, this gave time for Württemberg to strengthen his hasty positions.

Running low on water and provisions, the emigrants allowed a party of militiamen to enter their camp, who assured them of their safety and escorted them out of their hasty fortification.

His reputation does not rest on his numerous editions, often hasty or even made to booksellers ' orders, but in his remarks, especially his conjectures.